"Masterfully flips the first installment on its head... James
makes the mythic tantalizingly real." --Esquire
"Even more
brilliant than the first." --Buzzfeed
From Marlon
James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black
Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark
Star trilogy.
In
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy
adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African
landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon
Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own
account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought,
triumphed and failed as she looked for him. It's also the story of a
century-long feud--seen through the eyes of a 177-year-old
witch--that Sogolon had with the Aesi, chancellor to the king. It is
said that Aesi works so closely with the king that together they are
like the eight limbs of one spider. Aesi's power is considerable--and
deadly. It takes brains and courage to challenge him, which Sogolon
does for reasons of her own.
Both
a brilliant narrative device--seeing the story told in Black Leopard,
Red Wolf from the perspective of an adversary and a woman--as well as
a fascinating battle between different versions of empire, Moon
Witch, Spider King delves into Sogolon's world as she fights to
tell her own story. Part adventure tale, part chronicle of an
indomitable woman who bows to no man, it is a fascinating novel that
explores power, personality, and the places where they overlap.